University of Twente
3D Printing News Briefs, April 1, 2023: Wohlers Report, Metal Materials, & More
The top story of today’s 3D Printing News Briefs: Wohlers Report 2023 has been released! In other business news, Ametek has opened a Customer Center of Excellence. On to materials,…
Fibonacci Sequence-Inspired House 3D Printed by Twente AM
While 3D printed homes are beginning to creep into the norm more and more, I don’t know that we’ll see a whole neighborhood of them anytime soon. But one thing…
3D Printing News Briefs, May 20, 2020: 3DEO, Fraunhofer, Xometry, Raise3D, Protolabs
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, 3DEO has achieved an important industry certification. The Fraunhofer Project Center will soon host its second webinar, and Xometry has launched a video series….
3D Printing News Briefs, May 18, 2020: Fraunhofer, Formnext, Visagio & DiManEx, BCN3D Technologies
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Fraunhofer will soon discuss adoption of Industry 4.0-related technologies in a webinar, and we’ve learned that Formnext 2020 is still planned for this November….
3D Printing Models & Stents for Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Joyce van Loon recently presented a Master’s thesis, ‘Personalized Endovascular Stent Grafts: Developing a Phantom Aneurysm Model to Test Personalized Stent Grafts,’ to the University of Twente. This work is…
3DPrint.com Interviews 3D Printing Pioneer, Professor Ian Gibson of the University of Twente
I’ve been reading Ian Gibson‘s papers for years now. He has written many insightful articles delving deep into metal, polymers, sintering, concrete, welding, medical applications and the industrialization of 3D…
Researchers Develop Tough Hydrogels for 3D Printing Applications in Repairing Load-Bearing Soft Tissues
The water-swollen polymer networks we know as hydrogels have many applications in the biomedical industry, but in order to use them to repair and regenerate load-bearing soft tissues, such as cartilage, blood…
University of Twente Researchers 3D Print Gold Microstructures Using LIFT Technique
Researchers at the University of Twente have developed a new laser printing technique that allows for the 3D printing of gold nanostructures, including complex overhanging structures. By pointing a very short…
Multi-material & Multi-property Components with Additive Manufacturing
With more knowledge gathering in the additive manufacturing sector, there is a need to exploit one of its multiple advantages, which is to be able to produce components/parts with multimaterials…
Researchers Develop Microfluidic Technique for 3D Printing Living Cells for Tissue Engineering
There are multiple different applications for 3D bioprinting, and many researchers are hard at work to achieve the successful 3D printing of living cells. Now, scientists at the University of Twente (UT)…
Researchers 3D Print Microfluidic Blood Vessel Model to Study Disease-Causing Blood Clots
We’ve seen 3D printed blood vessels before – even an entire functioning network of them that was surviving in mice – but researchers in the Netherlands who are working with…
3D Printed MRI-Compatible Biopsy Robot Works to Diagnose Breast Cancer
I first truly became aware of 3D technology sometime in 2010 or 2011, when I went to the mall with my co-worker during our lunch break to grab a chili…
XZEED DLP Multi-Material 3D Printer with 5 Moving Vats of Resin Produced at University of Twente
While the majority of desktop 3D printers are based on FDM/FFF technology, other technologies such as Stereolithography (SLA) are coming on strong as patent expiration and lower prices increase their…
3D Printed Bioplotting May Offer Comfort to Diabetes Patients
Type 1 diabetes is a malady usually diagnosed in children and young adults, once known as juvenile diabetes. Only five percent of diabetes sufferers have this form of the disease; in…
